Valentina Tereshkova (a Russian) was the first woman to travel in space.
Valentina Tereshkova she was russian and she traveled in space on 16th june 1963
yes, she was the first astronaut in space. No, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, a Russian Cosmonaut, was the first woman in space (aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963).
RussiaRussian (Soviet). The Russian sent a woman into space in the 1960's. The USA was planning to send a woman into space in the 1960's, but, did not do so, because President LBJ ordered NASA not to. The USA would not send a woman into space until the 1980's.
The first man was Yuri Gagarin. The first woman was Valentina Tereshkova. Both were Russian citizens.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was a Russian astronaut, and the first woman to go into space on June 16, 1963, when she piloted the Vostok 6.
For about the first 15 years of space travel,almost all of the people who did it were men.
The first Russian trip into space took about 4 days.
Yuri Gagarin was Russian, and the first man in space.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man (and first Russian) to be put in space.
the Russian space station
the Sputnik was the first Russian spacecraft